Stats NZ Jacoby Prize
The 2023 winner of the Stats NZ Jacoby Prize awarded to best student research paper was Heather McLeod for her paper ‘Linking People and Climate: the Extreme Events Climate Index for Aotearoa for Stats NZ geographies and iwi rohe’. The paper will be published in forthcoming NZPR Vol 49. Although a seasoned academic, Heather recently completed her Masters in Climate Change Science and Policy at Victoria University of Wellington.
The Stats NZ Jacoby Prize is awarded by the Population Association of New Zealand for the best paper on a population topic written during a course of university study.
The Jacoby Prize is open to all current and immediate past tertiary students throughout New Zealand ahead of the biennial New Zealand Population Conference (NZPopCon), and is presented during the conference. The next NZPopCon is expected to take place in 2025.
Length for papers should be 5,000 to 8,000 words (not including tables, figures, and references).
PANZ welcomes papers on a wide range of population topics, including:
- Population and demographic change
- Health and wellbeing
- Inequality and poverty
- Migration, regional dynamics & labour markets
- Indigenous data sovereignty
- Diversity, gender and ethnic identities
- Housing and homelessness
- Families, whānau and households
Winners receive $500 from Stats NZ and the winning paper will be published in the New Zealand Population Review (NZPR), and their two-day registration fees and conference dinner cost will be paid by PANZ. In addition, the cost of travel and accommodation (if living outside Auckland) will be also be covered for the winner along with 2 years free membership to the Association.
For any queries about the prize, please contact Rosemary Goodyear
past winners
2021: Renee Shum, ‘Investigating the New Zealand Governments Understanding of Homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand 2008-2018: A Systematic Review of Grey Literature ‘ (published in NZPR 48, 2022).
2019: Jesse Whitehead, “We’re trying to heal, you know?” A mixed methods analysis of the spatial equity of General Practitioner services in the Waikato District Health Board region (published in NZPR 46, 2020, as co-authored by Jesse Whitehead, Amber Pearson, Ross Lawrenson & Polly Atatoa-Carr)
2015: Rachael McMillan, ‘Policy Responses to Depopulation’.
2013: Xingang Wang, ‘Assimilation, Ethnic Capital, and the Earnings of Immigrants in New Zealand: A Spatial Approach’.
2011: Rachael Hutt, ‘New Zealand’s Sole Parents and their Marital Status – Updating the Last Decade’.
2009: Alexandra Boyle, ‘Conceptions of Diaspora in a Globalising World: The Indian Diaspora Case Study’.
2007: Catherine Schroder, ‘Place Attachment in New Zealand’.